All
Aboard
The Revelstoke Railway Museum, in association with GW Travel
Limited and Canadian Pacific, is delighted to offer its annual
fund-raiser excursion aboard the EMPRESS, CPR 2816.
For
2008, we are offering your choice of either an excursion from
Golden to Revelstoke on September 30th, or an excursion from
Revelstoke to Golden on October 6th.
Tickets are $150 per person, or two tickets for $250, for either
excursion. Your ticket price includes:
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One-way passage aboard the Empress, either Golden to
Revelstoke or Revelstoke to Golden.
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Chartered bus transportation for your return to Golden or
Revelstoke.
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A Gourmet Boxed Meal and Beverage.
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Coffee, muffins, and/or light snack.
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A tour of the Revelstoke Railway Museum.
Itinerary:
Westbound ~ Golden to Revelstoke: September 30, 2008
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The EMPRESS (Rockies Rail Experience) arrives in Golden at
11:00 and departs for Revelstoke at 13:00. Revelstoke
arrival is scheduled for 16:00.
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Passengers departing from Revelstoke go directly to the
Revelstoke Railway Museum, park your vehicle, and gather in
the Museum’s foyer for coffee and muffins. You must be at
the Museum no later than 8:45. Bus departs for Golden at
9:00.
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All passengers board the EMPRESS in Golden prior to 13:00
departure. Box lunch and beverages will be served to you
shortly after departure. A light snack will be served at
15:30 as you approach Revelstoke.
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All passengers arrive in Revelstoke at 16:00. The EMPRESS
will stop in front of the Museum and will do a run by after
you have disembarked. You are free to take photographs,
mingle with the Rockies Rail Experience passengers, and tour
the Revelstoke Railway Museum.
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For those passengers departing directly from Golden and
needing transportation back to Golden after the Excursion,
your bus will depart the Museum at 17:00. Please confirm
“return to Golden” when you book your ticket(s).
Eastbound ~ Revelstoke to Golden: October 6, 2008
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The EMPRESS (Rockies Rail Experience) arrives in Revelstoke
at 13:15 and departs for Golden at 14:30. Golden arrival is
scheduled for 17:45.
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Passengers departing from Revelstoke go directly to the
Revelstoke Railway Museum, park your vehicle, gather in the
Museum’s foyer for a light snack, and tour the Museum.
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You must be at the Museum no later than 14:00. We recommend
arriving before 13:00 for the EMPRESS’ arrival and run by
the Museum.
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All passengers board the EMPRESS at the Museum prior to
14:30 departure. Boxed meal and beverages will be served to
at 17:00 as you approach Golden.
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All passengers arrive in Golden at 17:45. The EMPRESS will
stop at the CP Yard. You are free to take photographs, and
mingle with the Rockies Rail Experience passengers.
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Board bus for return to Revelstoke by 18:30. Arrival in
Revelstoke estimated at no later than 20:30.
ALL TIMES GIVEN ARE IN PACIFIC TIME (PT)
To reserve tickets, please call (250) 837-6060 or email
railway@telus.net
Major credit cards and personal cheques accepted.
Excursion is recommended for Adults. No pets allowed.
The Revelstoke Railway Museum’s excursions aboard the EMPRESS
are a discreet portion of GW Travel Limited Rockies Rail
Experience. To find out more about the Rockies Rail Experience,
please visit the GW Travel Limited website at:
http://www.gwtravel.co.uk/tours/Canada/rr_v_v.htm
Chocolate fundraiser a success
By Melissa Jameson - Revelstoke Times Review - April 01, 2008
Wine sampling was new to this year’s Death by Chocolate. This
year’s Death by Chocolate was a delicious success. Held over two
nights for its second year the fundraiser for the Revelstoke
Railway Museum saw 50 attendees Thursday night and 53 Friday
night for a total of about $1,236.
We sold 33 more tickets this year said the Railway Museum
Director Roberto Rodriguez. While, like last year, there were
scrumptious chocolate treats, fun games, and prizes to be won
there were also some differences. Attendees were able to
purchase chocolates from Purdy’s as well as from Summit
Chocolates run by local chocolatier Wendy Mulligan. And, when
palates got a little tired of sampling the chocolate, Granite
Creek Estate was on hand sampling their wines.
Granite
Creek owner Gary Kennedy said they were invited to the event. We
do make dessert wines that pair exceptionally well with
chocolate, he said. After a sampling of wines, attendees could
then go and feast on more chocolate goodies, not a bad way to
spend an evening.
Photo shows Granite Creek wine tasting table. Photo by
Rodriguez, Revelstoke Railway Museum
Museum "adopts" a train
Thanks to a very special program offered by the Lawrence Scripps
Wilkinson Foundation, the Revelstoke Railway Museum is the proud
parent of two wonderful 'O' gauge train sets. The sets, complete
with passenger cars, are
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The Royal Hudson
The Canadian |
currently on display in the Museum's mezzanine and consist of
the Canadian and the Royal Hudson. These delightful models are a
welcome addition to the Museum's collection, and compliment the
model railroad layout being built by the Revelstoke Model
Railroad Society also displayed in the mezzanine.
The Foundation's purpose is to continue the education and
romance of railroading, and it is their wish to donate wonderful
replica trains to railroad stations and museums located near the
rail lines where the trains once ran. The Wilkinson Foundation
owns approximately 275 model trains at the present time,
representing semi--scale and scale models of notable real trains
that were the glamorous flagships of the great North American
railway systems.
To find out more about the Lawrence Scripps Wilkinson Foundation
and their "Adopt a Train" program, visit their website at
www.wilkinsontrains.com
Ski-doo goes to Swift Current
On Monday, March 31st at 10:00 am, David Johnson, President of
the Revelstoke Heritage Railway Society, reached into a bag
containing the tickets sold for the Revelstoke Railway Museum's
2008 Ski-doo raffle and drew the winning ticket, #0767,
purchased by Mr. Ken Langley of Swift Current, Saskatchewan.
Mr. Langley was immediately called by Museum Director Roberto
Rodriguez, who gave the good news to Mr. Langley's wife. Plans
were then made to pick up the Ski-doo, and on Friday, April 4th,
Mr. Langley, wife Maryette, and son Jesse arrived with a hauler
and collected their prize. Instead of heading back home, they
went straight to Boulder Mountain for a few days of riding, and
a chance to try out their new toy.
The winning ticket was sold by Society Trustee Don Hawker to Mr.
Langley back in January, when he
and
his family were here for a few days of snowmobile riding. This
is the first time Mr. Langley has ever won a major prize, and
it's a safe bet that he, Maryette, and Jesse will be back again
next winter; they love Revelstoke and the snowmobile trails
here. Congratulations to Mr. Langley, and happy riding!
Photo of David Johnson presenting the Ski-doo keys to Mr.
Langley. Photo by Rodriguez, Revelstoke Railway Museum
March 15, 2008
NEWS RELEASE - Ministry of Tourism, Sport
and the Arts
INTERIOR BC150 EVENTS SHARE IN $1-MILLION FUND
VICTORIA
– BC150 Community Funding Program grants are being awarded to
community groups and organizations in the East Kootenay and
Columbia regions staging three local BC150 celebrations,
Tourism, Sport and the Arts Minister Stan Hagen announced today.
“History was made everywhere in the province – and local
communities will be the foundation of BC150 celebrations,” said
Hagen. “Funding available through the BC150 Community Funding
program extends to every region of the province, helping to make
hometown festivals, arts and culture exhibitions extra special
for families and visitors in 2008.”
Through 2010 Legacies Now, Spirit of BC Community Committees
worked with community leaders and event hosts to develop plans
for local BC150 celebrations. BC150 Community Funding Program
projects support the BC150 pillars of: heritage, communities,
multiculturalism, Aboriginals, and arts and culture, and reflect
the unique nature of each British Columbia community.
Funded events in Kimberley are Miners’ Days, to be held in
August featuring activities that celebrate the area’s mining
history; and the Kimberley International Music and Dance
Festival in September, which celebrates the heritage of the
community’s immigrant population.
In Revelstoke, Railway Days in August is the community’s annual
10-day signature event to commemorate railway history and
heritage.
“There is an amazing range of events that will draw visitors and
residents, and boost community pride,” said Hagen. “Country
fairs, winter fests, art and historical exhibitions – a wide
variety of activities representing British Columbia at its
grassroots.”
This year, B.C. is celebrating BC150, the 150th anniversary of
the founding of the Crown Colony of British Columbia in 1858.
Every community in the province is invited to participate in
this year-long celebration of B.C.’s cultural diversity,
community strength and widespread achievement. For more
information on BC150 programs and events, visit
www.BC150.ca.
February 26, 2008
MEDIA RELEASE
Vancouver Foundation matches Museum Endowment Fund
The
Revelstoke Heritage Railway Society is pleased to announce that
its application to the Vancouver Foundation’s BC Arts
Renaissance Fund Advisory Committee for endowment matching has
been favorably reviewed, and that a matching grant in the amount
of $10,105.00 has been authorized in respect of it. The grant is
made possible by the BC Arts Renaissance Fund, a gift from the
Province of British Columbia, under the stewardship of Vancouver
Foundation.
The grant matches dollar for dollar those funds donated by
community members, and members of the Revelstoke Heritage
Railway Society, towards the establishment of the Railway Museum
Endowment Fund. The Fund was established within the Revelstoke
Community Foundation on October 19, 2007, and by December 2007
had reached $10,000 in contributions. Application for the
matching grant was made to Vancouver Foundation on December 21,
2007.
“With the match and donations received since January 1, 2008,
the Railway Museum Endowment Fund now sits at $21,985.00. The
Society’s goal is to raise another $10,000 this year, and apply
again to Vancouver Foundation for another match at the end of
the year”, says Railway Museum Executive Director, Roberto
Rodriguez.
“Establishing an endowment for the Museum would not have been
possible without the Revelstoke Community Foundation and the
support of Vancouver Foundation,” Rodriguez went on to say. “As
the Fund continues to grow, its earnings will be used to help
defray the Museum’s operating expenses and capital expenditures,
thus freeing up additional funds for the Revelstoke Railway
Museum’s exhibitions, programmes, and events”.
Vancouver Foundation is Canada's largest and one of its oldest
community foundations. Its mission is to create positive and
lasting impacts in communities in British Columbia. It does this
by bringing together generous donors (large and small,
individuals, groups, and corporations) and linking their
contributions to important work that addresses the needs and
improves the lives of communities across the province.
Today, the Foundation manages an endowment worth approximately
$800 million. In 2006, the interest from that endowment allowed
the Foundation to distribute about $40 million to communities.
To find out more visit:
www.vancouverfoundation.ca
Those wishing to contribute to the Fund should send cheques made
out to the Revelstoke Community Foundation, with the notation
that they are for the Railway Museum Endowment Fund, to:
Revelstoke Community Foundation, 204 Campbell Avenue, PO Box
2398, Revelstoke, BC V0E 2S0. Receipts for tax deduction will be
provided.
October 15, 2007
MEDIA RELEASE
Railway Museum Endowment Fund Established
The
Revelstoke Heritage Railway Society is pleased to announce the
establishment of the Railway Museum Endowment Fund within the
Revelstoke Community Foundation. As the Fund grows, its earnings
will be used to help defray the Museum’s operating expenses and
capital expenditures, thus freeing up additional funds for the
Revelstoke Railway Museum’s exhibitions, programmes, and events.
“The establishment of the Railway Museum Endowment Fund speaks
volumes about Revelstoke and its strong commitment to see the
Museum grow and prosper. With donations made in memory of Jack
Leslie and Fred Angus, generous gifts from community leaders,
and contributions from members of Board of Trustees, the
community is making a powerful statement that it supports its
Railway Museum,” says Society President David Johnson.
“Now that the Fund has been established, our goal is to quickly
reach $10,000; once this goal is reached every dollar
contributed to the Fund will be matched 1:1 through the BC Arts
Renaissance Fund, administered by the Vancouver Foundation.
Establishing an endowment for the Museum would not have been
possible without the Revelstoke Community Foundation,” Johnson
went on to say. “The Foundation is able to invest its resources
at much better rates of return and at lower cost than the
Revelstoke Heritage Railway Society could do on its own.”
Those wishing to contribute to the Fund should send cheques made
out to the Revelstoke Community Foundation, with the notation
that they are for the Railway Museum Endowment Fund, to:
Revelstoke Community Foundation, 204 Campbell Avenue, PO Box
2398, Revelstoke, BC V0E 2S0. Receipts for tax deduction will be
provided.
Photo insert shows Steven Hui of the Revelstoke Community
Foundation’s Executive Committee accepting a cheque from
David Johnson, President of the Revelstoke Heritage Railway
Society, establishing the Railway Museum Endowment Fund at the
Foundation’s October 9th Board of Directors meeting.
David
Johnson (left), President, Revelstoke Heritage Railway Society
and Roberto Rodriguez (right), Executive Director, Revelstoke
Railway Museum accept CP 5500 from Dan Sewell, CP Service Area
Manager – Revelstoke.
In 2006,
new owners purchased the restaurant and decided to renovate; the
mural was slated for demolition. 
Thanks
to a cooperative project between the Revelstoke Heritage Railway
Society and the Revelstoke Museum & Archives Association, two
interrelated exhibitions will be mounted that celebrate the
contribution of the Chinese in building the railway and building
the community. 
New
Exhibition
"As we
begin to collect the digitization projects into a single place,
we'll create a portal within the next year where people can find
out about their own history," says Jan Wallace, Interim Director
of the Learning Centre. 
The Revelstoke Railway Museum hosted the OKANAGAN CLASSIC
THUNDERBIRD CLUB on their 9th Annual Three-Day Tour, May 28,
2007. Over 50 classic T-Birds were on hand, welcomed to the
Museum by members of the Vintage Car Club of Canada - Revelstoke
Chapter. 
for our first annual car
show as part of Railway
Days 2007. People’s choice trophies will be awarded and all
entrants will receive a commemorate Railway Days dash plaque.
Details will be posted on the Railway Days website
Revelstoke,
BC: - The Revelstoke Railway Museum is proud to announce
that it has been awarded the Revelstoke Chamber of Commerce 2006
Business Excellence Award. Each year, members of the Revelstoke
Chamber of Commerce celebrate the successes of their peers by
nominating local businesses for various awards, including the
prestigious Business Excellence Award. The Revelstoke Railway
Museum was nominated in three award categories; People's Choice
Service, Community Support, and Business Excellence. To be
nominated for Business Excellence. the business must have
demonstrated outstanding characteristics in all areas of
business excellence, including service, promotions, spirit of
cooperation, role model of success, community booster, and 'all
around' business.
